Perhaps in a bid to keep up with this trend, NVIDIA recently announced its plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI. The chipmaker's first $10 billion investment in OpenAI will be made once both parties reach an agreement for OpenAI to purchase NVIDIA chips. While making the announcement, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman indicated:“Everything starts with compute. NVIDIA and OpenAI are set to finalize the new partnership details in the coming weeks, potentially addressing the ChatGPT maker's cloud compute woes. But following the new partnership announcement between OpenAI and NVIDIA, Sam Altman indicated:"The compute constraints that the whole industry has been, and our company in particular have been terrible.